Lead Data Engineer – Azure Databricks & Data Operations

Salary: £45,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong Azure Data Platform experience.
• Hands-on Azure Databricks expertise.
• Advanced SQL and Python development skills.
• Strong experience with ETL/ELT and data pipeline development.
• Experience supporting production data platforms and operational services.
• Data modelling and data architecture knowledge.
• Incident management, root cause analysis and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience leading and managing offshore delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and business-facing communication skills.
• Ability to drive end-to-end ownership of data engineering services.
• Power BI integration experience.
• Microsoft Fabric exposure.
• Azure Data Factory and Synapse experience.
• Retail, Commercial or Finance Analytics domain knowledge.
• Managed Services delivery experience.
• DevOps, CI/CD and automation experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale analytics and reporting platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end operations and support for Azure-based data platforms.
• Manage and mentor an offshore Data Engineering team.
• Own operational stability, service delivery and incident management.
• Design, maintain and optimise data pipelines and data workflows.
• Support Azure Databricks environments, notebooks and data processing frameworks.
• Drive root cause analysis and resolution of production issues.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Establish operational runbooks, governance and support processes.
• Ensure data quality, performance and platform reliability.
• Support platform modernisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Technologies:

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Databricks
• DevOps
• ETL
• Fabric
• Incident Management
• Support
• Network
• Power BI
• Python
• SQL
• Security

More:

We are TCS, a purpose-led transformation company that helps organisations across the UK and globally achieve meaningful change through technology. We are hiring a Lead Data Engineer for a permanent hybrid role based in Redditch, UK, working 40 hours per week. This is an opportunity to contribute to challenging, high-impact projects in a global financial services environment, designing secure, scalable and resilient cloud-native data solutions. We offer competitive salary packages with pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, extensive training resources and discounts across the Tata network, along with health and wellness initiatives and sports events. We are committed to diversity, inclusion and wellbeing, and we are a disability inclusive employer.

last updated 33 week of 2026